Passing the 1000-Book Mark for Library Borrowing
A tribute to libraries and my borrowing more than 1000 comic book collections and original graphic novels from them
Catch-up Notes On A Film – Avengers: Endgame
I’ve had some cinematic experiences that have stayed with me. Not just the quality of the film itself, but the entirety of the visit and the effect it had on me. I wept openly in a critic’s screening of Good Will Hunting. I rippled with nostalgic awe watching the re-release…
Catch-up Notes On A Film: Captain Marvel
I saw Captain Marvel on the opening weekend, and I was glad to be part of the huge opening weekend, the >$1 billion box office and the overwhelming positive reviews for a movie that the (male) haters were negative-review bombing without seeing the film and trying to stop from becoming…
Book Review – Quentin Tarantino: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
Written by Ian Nathan If you are a film geek and like to write about film because of that passion, Quentin Tarantino plays a big part in your cinematic life. Me, I saw Reservoir Dogs when it came out and it blew my tiny little mind – the dialogue, the…
Blogging Badge of Honour: My WordPress Got Hacked
(Image by Darwin Laganzon from Pixabay.) Well, I say, ‘Hacked’ … ‘Hacked’ sounds really ominous, like I was the target of a deliberate attack for nefarious purposes. Disclaimer: nope. What happened was that some bots looking for a weakness in plugins that weren’t updated and then dropped in some malicious…
Comic Books And Me 2019
Technically, this is still a comic book blog – that’s how it started out, all those years ago, and although the blog has wandered into other areas of my pop-culture consumption (films, comedy, books, etc.), writing about comic books and comic book-related things is the still the primary driving force…
Ranking My Favourite MCU Films
Ranking lists of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. There are many like it, but this one is mine. The MCU has changed the nature of cinematic franchises – every studio is trying desperately to ape the model that they have created, without truly understanding what they’ve done and how they’ve…
My Troubles With Trade Paperback Prices
I’ve been reading comic books for a long while, and I have a lot of comic books in my collections, but I don’t buy anywhere near as many individual comic books as I did. This is for two main reasons: 1. The price of individual issues nowadays is prohibitively expensive…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Concert
The Harry Potter category on this blog indicates the love I have for JK Rowling’s creation (we have the books, the DVDS, the Blu-rays – because I only had the US DVD for the first film and we wanted to have The Philosopher’s Stone, not The Sorcerer’s Stone – we’ve visited…
Comic Book Review: Fearscape #1
Writer: Ryan O’Sullivan Illustrator: Andrea Mutti Colourist: Vladmimir Popov Letters: Andworld Design Publishers: Vault Comics Ryan O’Sullivan, a writer, is writing a comic book about a writer who is not a good writer but is the author of the comic book while being an unreliable narrator and an unpleasant human…